Dell Technologies reviews

3.7

62% would recommend to a friend

(36,560 total reviews)
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Michael S. Dell

69% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Dell Technologies has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 36,560 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Dell Technologies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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37K reviews
2.0
Jun 18, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay is competitive, Bonus payment record is good

Cons

I currently work for a terrible manager who undermines his team, fails to hold problem engineers accountable, and raises the stress level unnecessarily. Some Dell managers are better, but the culture encourages turf-battlers over good managers. It appears that priority 1 is repaying the LBO firm that took Dell private, at the expense of flogging as much has possible out of engineering with no new hires and no back-fill after RIFs. The saying around the office is "Cisco Products on a Wal Mart Budget."

1.0
May 10, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Dell provides reasonable pay and benefits (but you will work extremely hard for them). A highlight of my position was the opportunity to work with some excellent customers. There are also some great people within Dell (although these are routinely fires/let loose or downsized).

Cons

Work life balance is unacceptable! The expectation is you will be committed to an 80+ hour workweek (often in excess of 100Hr/week). Mid level managers are merely mouthpieces for senior management directives - with little ability to impact or improve the working conditions for those that do the work. Training is abysmal - mostly sales or marketing focused dribble that fails to educate. Ethics are horrible - great on paper, but in practice - some of the worst I have seen. If it sells product, management quickly turns a blind eye. Change may be inevitable, but at Dell, it has taken on a whole new definition. Changes in pay, changes in territory, changes in reporting structure, changes in team all work together to create a hurricane of chaos. In my opinion, this level of change is purely to hide the incompetence of sr. management at Dell. It has also fostered an extremely cutthroat culture in which team members become ruthless and will do whatever it takes, no matter how ugly or unethical, to stay at the top of the heap. As an employee at Dell, I found myself feeling like an utterly insignificant cog. My opinions didn't matter, my personal life (or need for one!) didn't matter, and creating a stable work environment didn't matter. Leaving Dell has been the BEST decision of my entire life

1.0
Nov 20, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

smart people, good experience for learning

Cons

no focus, priorities changes every 6 months performance reviews focuses more on individual rather than team effort reorgs in management leads to unnecessary change which screws up employees hard work and morale

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